Samsung Galaxy K Zoom – Samsung tries again with cell phone with 10x optical zoom
The camera is the ground of a challenge for manufacturers of smartphones and there is still plenty of space to find new ways: Nokia has embarked on one of the many megapixels and digital zoom without loss, while Samsung has experienced over the year’s various solutions to bring the optical zoom on mobile phones.
The Korean giant has beaten many roads, from Cell fat with optical zoom, compact design with large display and Android OS, up to the mirrorless based on the same operating system.
Samsung Galaxy S4 Zoom belongs to the first category and was born from the union between a theoretical Galaxy S4 and a zoom lens, even if the characteristics of the part smartphones were not so closely related to the then top of the range Samsung now trying to make a similar operation with the newest, Samsung Galaxy S5, but decided – rightly – not to use the name of the top of the range, opting for a more neutral Samsung Galaxy K Zoom.
Samsung has opted for a sensor size 1/2, 3 ” to 20.7 megapixels, with pixels of the same size as the sensor of 41 megapixels of the Nokia Lumia 1020. The stabilized 10x optical zoom F3.1-F6.3 has equivalent focal length 24-240mm going to be a good wide-angle zoom can zoom in on distant subjects well.
Among the improvements over the previous model is its ability to record Full HD 1080p at 60 frames per second. The brilliant 4.8 ” AMOLED panel uses a 1280×720 pixels and acts as a control center for the camera, while the Exynos processor is a 5 Hexa which operates with two cores at 1.7 GHz and the other four cores at 1.3 GHz , accompanied by 2GB of RAM. The KitKat operating system is Android 4.4 and borrows from the top of the line S5 power saving mode ultra power saving, which promises to make it last longer battery 2430 mAh.
It is a hybrid between a phone and a camera, and a weight of 200 grams makes it obvious compromises to which you are permitted to fall. It also features a 2-megapixel front-facing camera, but Samsung has developed a special system for self-portraits.
The camera from the app, you can choose an area of the frame in which to fall back on our face: when you angle the camera towards an audible alarm alerts you when you have reached the perfect alignment and the car snaps the selfie . There are plenty of manual controls for those who want to try to experiment with more advanced levels of photography.
